Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she made her ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — In 1940, Wichita native Hattie McDaniel became the first Black performer to win an Oscar. This weekend, a Wichita event, Hattie McDaniel Day, recognized her work to change the ...

The Upcountry History Museum brings us this week in History. On February 29th, 1940 Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as Mammy in the 1939 film, “Gone with ...

DENVER — Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor to win an Oscar, started her career path to celebrity stardom in Colorado. Her family moved to Fort Collins in the early 1900s and then to Denver, where ...

Hattie McDaniel was an African-American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Before she won an Academy Award for Best ...

She was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award. But from the grand mansion she had fought to occupy on West Adams’ celebrated “Sugar Hill,” Hattie McDaniel tasted both the bitter ...